Ebenezer Dumont

Ebenezer Dumont (23 November 1814-16 April 1871) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War and a member of the US House of Representatives (R-IN 6) from 1863 to 1867, succeeding Albert G. Porter and preceding John Coburn.

Biography
Ebenezer Dumont was born in Vevay, Indiana in 1814, and he worked as a lawyer before serving in the State House in 1838, as Treasurer of Vevay from 1839 to 1845, and as a US Army lieutenant-colonel during the Mexican-American War. He returned to the State House from 1850 and 1853, and, during the American Civil War, he took command of an Indiana regiment which fought mostly in West Virginia and the Western Theater. Dumont was promoted to Brigadier-General on 3 September 1861, and he resigned from the army on 28 February 1863 to resume his political career. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1863 to 1867, and he died in 1871 before he could serve as Governor of Idaho.